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Peer review skills

This collection provides a range of online resources to support you in understanding and participating in the peer review process.

Created by Emerald's specialist peer review professionals, these resources are designed to introduce our key pillars and principles on peer review best practice, as well as showcasing differences in peer review approaches between product types and helping you to approach writing reviews.

Our peer review key pillars and principles

These principles set out how we guide editorial teams to help ensure the peer review process for their journal is fair, efficient, and effective.

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Understanding different peer review processes

Highlighting the peer review models used by our journals and cases.

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The journal peer review process

Guidelines to support reviewers at each stage of the peer review process, including on ethics and best practice.

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The book peer review process

A helpful guide to our book peer review process.

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Becoming a journal peer reviewer

Never reviewed for one of our journals before? Here are details on how to get started.

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How to begin your review

Unsure where to begin your review? Questions to consider when beginning your review.

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How to manage bias in peer review

Guidance on maintaining the integrity of the peer review process.

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A guide to good peer review

A podcast mini-series intended as a resource for reviewers on what makes good peer review from three expert perspectives.

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